I'll get right on their site next time I'm in the mood to slip into some slim fit jeans and get a facial while sipping a lemon drop martini and listening to Kanye.

This is great though- the Metro is my only way home other than an expensive cab ride. And at least for UMD students free taxi service is given to certian parts of College Park and the UMD campus when the buses stop running- including the Metro. Glad I can stay to the end.

I also heard that the organization that was really against the Nats paying for this was the MLB.

The Nats have yet to mention Living Social on either their website or on Twitter. The team even retweeted a message from Metro about the extension, selecting the one Tweet that omitted the name of their benefactor.

The Nats have yet to mention Living Social on either their website or on Twitter. The team even retweeted a message from Metro about the extension, selecting the one Tweet that omitted the name of their benefactor.

Right, great move by Living Social, they'll be mentioned repeatedly throughout the playoffs by every local media outlet when reporting on the games, probably pissing the old man off that another company is making a buck off the Nationals and he's not getting a cut.

I wonder how many people will ride to the game. If 10,000 do at 4.50 fare, that'd be only 4,500. 20,000 would be 9,000, under 33% of the deposit. And that's assuming the games goes late.

The late night fares are somewhere in the range of $5.36 so it doesn't take as many riders to make up the difference. Also, Living Social only put down a deposit, if none of the games go late they get a full refund.

(When I was back at GMU 10,000 times 4.50 was 45K) :-)

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Event organizers are required to put down a $29,500 deposit for an extra hour of service. WMATA refunds whatever is left of the deposit based on how many riders take trains during the extended period. For example, 5,229 customers used Metro after Madonna's concert at Verizon Center Sunday, so the actual cost to the arena was only $1,472.